Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
CESAR CHAVEZOrganizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
More Cesar Chavez Quotes
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In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
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Talk is cheap. It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
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There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
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There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.
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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
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Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
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If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
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The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
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If you’re not frightened that you might fail, you’ll never do the job. If you’re frightened, you’ll work like crazy.
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You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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